Paradis XII, 2009 - Juergen Teller

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"Funny story," said gallerist Johann König, grinning with complicity at Juergen Teller during a cigarette break at a dinner for the photographer. "We met," intervened Teller, "when I took his picture for a Russian magazine. The woman who commissioned the story went to jail, the image was never published, but we stayed friends." It was meant to be.

This past weekend saw the opening of Teller's solo show, Paradis, at König's eponymous white cube: the Berlin-based Johann König Gallery. The collection of photographs, featuring the purposefully age-gapped Raquel Zimmermann and Charlotte Rampling in an after-hours naked spree at the Louvre, is an eerie sighting. The juxtaposition of the age - old art work of the Parisian crown institution with the raw, over-exposed treatment of Teller's lense depict a scene as if from an alternative reality, one where the world - and the Mona Lisa - are treated (for the first time) to Rampling's naked figure. "In the end," commented Teller, "she did it for the Louvre."